Chusetts



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDW'ARD S. STIMPSON AND WALLACE I. STIMPSON, OF HOPEDALE, MASSA- CHUSETTS, ASSIGNORS TO THE DUTCHER TEMPLE COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

LOOM-TEMPLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 564,166, dated July 14, 1896. Application filed January 10,1896. Serial No. 575,029. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, EDWARD S. STIMPsoN and WALLACE I. SrIMPsoN, of Hopedale, county of l/Vorcester, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvementin Loom-Temples, of which the following description, in.

connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters and numerals on the drawings representing like parts.

In the manufacture of cloth in looms provided with automatic filling-supplying mechanism, as, for instance, in the loom shown in United States Patent No. 520,940, dated November 27, 1894, when a fresh filling-carrier is moved from the hopper into the shuttle by the transferring devices and the shuttle has made its first shot through the shed, a portion of said filling will extend from the selvage of the cloth to the usual point of attachment of the filling end on or adjacent the hopper. Should this portion of the filling beyond the selvage be broken merely by the travel of the cloth, it would be left hanging from the selvage, to be thereafter trimmed or cut off by hand, for if it were not trimmed it might fly about and be caught and woven in, making an imperfection in the cloth.

This invention has for its object the production of means for parting the fresh filling between the selvage of the cloth and the point of attachment of the filling end after its first shot, and this object is accomplished by means of a temple provided with a filling-parting device, the construction and arrangement of which is such that after the protruding end has been parted close to the selvage the live filling will not be engaged and parted.

Other features of our invention will be hereinafter described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

Figure 1, in front elevation, represents a temple with a filling-parting device applied thereto embodying our invention, a filling end being shown. in position to be parted thereby. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view thereof on the line or :r, Fig. 1, looking toward the right hand. Fig. 3 is a top or plan view of the temple, partially broken out, with the roll and cap removed; and Fig. 4: is a side elevation of the temple-roll detached, with the filling-parter thereon.

The pod a, cap I), having an ear 1), through which a retaining-screw b is extended into the projection a of the pod, to secure it thereto, and the temple-roll 0, provided with pins V and adapted to rotate on journals 0 0 (shown as screws turned into the opposite ends of the cap 1),) may be and are all as usual in loomtemples.

The pod a near its outer end is provided with a semiannular groove a and an adjacent wall a and a like groove b is formed in the cap 17 substantially above the groove a the groove b terminating in a slot 19 in the front of the cap. The front wall of the pod near its outer closed end is upturned at a and slotted at a in the plane of the groove ta the inner upright edge a of the upturned portion forming a guard for the selvage of the cloth, and also acting to prevent the entrance of any short ends of filling, lint, &c., to the adjacent journal of the roll 0, which would clog the roll. In the face of the part a of the pod, and continuing thence across the adjacent part of the cap to its outer end, we make a groove 30, the inner end of said groove terminating at substantially the junction of the guard awith the upper edge or lip of the pod a, and intersecting the path of the fillingparter (to be described) and the slots of and b The parting device is herein shown as a wheel or disk d, having a toothed or notched periphery d and provided with inturned prongs (Z to enter recesses in the end of the roll 0 and rotate in unison therewith, the periphery of the parter entering the grooves a b and the slots a b and crossing the facegroove 30, as clearly shown in Fig. 2.

The part of the filling 15 between the selvage and-the point of attachment of its end will, after the first shot of the shuttle in the conform substantially to such angle, in order that the filling may enter it promptly after the first shot.

As the weaving progresses the live filling is carried across the lay in a horizontal plane and will not enter the groove 30, so that the parting device cannot engage and part it.

The curved wall a outside the groove a in the pod serves to limit longitudinal movement of the roll 0 in that direction.

It will be observed that we do not herein employ sharpened blade-like or shearing members for cutting the filling, but that the parting is a breakage accomplished by pulling the filling against one edge of the groove 30 and across the intersecting slot by means of the notched disk cl.

\Ve are aware that a temple has heretofore been provided with two shear or blade-like cutting members, one of which is moved relatively to the other by the temple-roll to cut the filling-thread, and such construction We do not claim herein.

Having fully described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is v 1. I11 a loom-temple, a roll, a filling-parter attached thereto, and a pod or cover for said roll, said pod or cover being normally closed at its outer end and the wall thereof provided with a slot into which the parter projects, substantially as described.

2. In a 1oo1ntemple, a roll, a filling-parter attached thereto and a pod or cover for said roll, said pod or cover being normally closed at its outer end and the walls thereof provided with two intersecting slots, into one of which the parter proj ects,substantially as described.

8. In a loom-temple, a roll, a filling-parter carried thereby, said parter being provided with projections having opposite parting edges, substantially as described.

at. In a loom-temple, a roll, a filling-parter carried thereby and consisting of a disk having notches in its periphery, both walls of said notches presenting a parting edge, sub stantially as described' In testimony whereof We have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

EDVARD S. ,TIMPSON. WVALLACE I. STIMPSON.

Vitnesscs:

FRANK J. DUTOHER,

GEORGE E. SrIMPsoN. 

